The first one Amazingly boring. With them stacking so much into this, I have a feeling it will fail to have any real substance and just throw images at the screen. They rebooted this franchise way too soon. It needs to rest peacefully for a while...long enough for it to go back to Marvel so we can get a truly Spectacular Spider-Man.

Love Paul Giamatti. He's always on his game. He could easily handle playing the villain. The first Spiderman had something to prove, because it had to tell the same story while delivering something new and fresh. I think Andrew Garfield won a lot of people over with his performance, and the plot was pretty damned good. Far from perfect? Sure, but as with Paul Giamatti as the villain, it adds a different dimension to the material. This isn't an attempt to make an exact duplicate of the original material. Movies need to be made like movies.

hfc, that different dimension would be the Twilight Zone. Giamatti is a great actor, but as the Rhino? Only if they decide to cast Woody Allen as Spiderman. Rhino's a big thick monster who makes his living running into brick walls head-first, he's not a deep thinker. Giamatti is not only too intelligent but also too short. Rhino is a good idea, muscle hired by whoever the chief villain is, but I'd probably look into the wrestling ring for someone to fill the suit, WWE's Matt "Tenzai" Bloom or maybe TNA's Hernandez would do it quite nicely.